THE COMPANY YOU ARE JOINING:
Large, highly recognized organization supporting critical power, electrical infrastructure, construction, and Outdoor Lighting operations across a multi-state service territory
Complex, field-based environment where workforce readiness, safety, operational consistency, and successful program adoption directly influence business performance
Collaborative organization bringing together operational leaders, field technicians, technical SMEs, instructional developers, and program stakeholders
High-visibility opportunity to strengthen how training initiatives are developed, communicated, and integrated across the workforce—from field employees through senior leadership
WHAT THEY OFFER YOU:
- Opportunity to lead highly visible workforce and training initiatives supporting a critical field-based operation
- Project-focused position combining program management, change leadership, stakeholder engagement, and curriculum coordination
- Dedicated instructional-development and technical subject-matter experts who will support ADDIE, curriculum creation, and specialized lighting content
- Ability to influence how new programs, processes, and operational priorities are introduced and adopted across a geographically distributed workforce
- Regular exposure to operational and executive leadership within a large, complex organization
- Opportunity to translate technical and operational information into a clear, compelling story that resonates with field technicians, frontline leaders, and executive stakeholders
- Hybrid position based in Charlotte, NC
- Three days per week onsite
- Work will be performed across two Charlotte-area locations
- Frequent travel to operational locations throughout a multi-state territory
- Should be comfortable with 50% or more travel
- Lead multiple workforce training and operational-readiness initiatives from strategy through implementation and continuous improvement
- Own project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, status reporting, and deliverables
- Translate operational priorities into structured training and workforce-development plans
- Serve as the primary liaison between field operations, business leaders, technical SMEs, and instructional-development teams
- Coordinate curriculum development while dedicated instructional designers lead detailed ADDIE and course-development activities
- Drive change management, communications, and adoption across field technicians, frontline leaders, and senior leadership
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions, establish accountability, and maintain momentum across teams and locations
- Present program strategy, progress, risks, recommendations, and outcomes to leadership
- Identify training gaps, operational impacts, cost-saving opportunities, and improvements to program effectiveness
- Measure workforce readiness, adoption, and results, adjusting plans as priorities or project conditions change
- Demonstrate ownership, sound judgment, and independent decision-making throughout execution
- Strong project or program management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Proven ownership of training, workforce-readiness, or change initiatives from strategy through rollout and adoption
- Strong storyteller who can translate technical or operational information for field employees, business leaders, and executives
- Experience connecting operational leaders and SMEs with instructional-design or curriculum-development teams
- Skilled in managing budgets, schedules, resources, risks, competing priorities, and stakeholder expectations
- Experience implementing new programs or processes across a distributed, technical, or safety-sensitive workforce
- Background in construction, electrical, lighting, utilities, power, infrastructure, field services, manufacturing, or telecommunications preferred
- Familiarity with ADDIE or structured training methodologies is helpful; deep instructional-design expertise is not required
- Bachelor’s or technical degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or high school diploma/GED with 10+ years
- Comfortable working independently, making sound decisions, and traveling frequently across a multi-state footprint
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